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  2. Mongolian Plateau - Wikipedia

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    The Mongolian Plateau is an inland plateau in East Asia that lies between 37°46′-53°08′N and 87°40′-122°15′E [citation needed] and has an area of approximately 3,200,000 square kilometers (1,200,000 sq mi).

  3. Geography of Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, located between China and Russia. The terrain is one of mountains and rolling plateaus , with a high degree of relief. [ 2 ] The total land area of Mongolia is 1,564,116 square kilometres. [ 3 ]

  4. Mongol heartland - Wikipedia

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    The Mongol heartland [1] or Mongolian heartland [2] refers to the contiguous geographical area in which the Mongol people have primarily lived, [3] especially in history books. It is generally considered to comprise the Mongolian Plateau and some adjacent territories, although its exact extent has been changing over the course of history ...

  5. Holocene climatic optimum - Wikipedia

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    Winter warming of 3 to 9 °C and summer warming of 2 to 6 °C occurred in northern central Siberia. [21] The HCO was highly asynchronous in Central and East Asia, [22] though it at least occurred contemporaneously in the Loess Plateau, the Inner Mongolian Plateau, and Xinjiang. [23]

  6. Environmental issues in Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    Mongolia supports an innate biodiversity, owing to its unique and often undisturbed ecosystems. It has some of the last populations of the world's endangered species, and has many species that can only be found within it. However, Mongolia's biodiversity is threatened by its growing population and demand for natural resources.

  7. History of Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    As for Mongolia itself, since the Mongolian Plateau is where the ruling Mongols of the Yuan dynasty came from, it enjoyed a somewhat special status during the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty, although the capital of the dynasty had been moved from Karakorum to Khanbaliq (modern Beijing) since the beginning of Kublai Khan's reign, and Mongolia had been ...

  8. Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    The name Mongolia means the "Land of the Mongols" in Latin. The Mongolian word "Mongol" (монгол) is of uncertain etymology.Sükhbataar (1992) and de la Vaissière (2021) proposed it being a derivation from Mugulü, the 4th-century founder of the Rouran Khaganate, [13] first attested as the 'Mungu', [14] (Chinese: 蒙兀, Modern Chinese Měngwù, Middle Chinese Muwngu), [15] a branch of ...

  9. Northeast Asia - Wikipedia

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    Under Kerner's definition, "Northeast Asia" includes the Japanese Archipelago, the Korean Peninsula, the Mongolian Plateau, the Northeast China Plain, and the mountainous regions of the Russian Far East, stretching from the Lena River in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.